Convertible chair and table.



PATENTED'APR. 7, 1908.

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APPLICATION FILED JUNE 26, 1907.

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CHARLES H. DIXON, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

CONVERTIBLE CHAIR AND TABLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented a rii i, 1908.

Application filed June 26, 1907. Serial No. 380,916.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES H. DIXON, a citizen of the United States,residing at Newark, in the county of Essex, State of New Jersey, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Convertible Chairs andTables; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, andexact descri tion of the invention, such as will enab e others skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The present invention has reference to convertible chairs and tables,and it aims to provide an exceedingly simple and durable piece offurniture which can be effectively converted from a chair into a tableby causing the back to assume a horizontal position.

To this end the invention consists in certain details of construction,and in the combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fullydescribed, specifically claimed, and illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings, in which like parts are designated by corresponding referencenumerals in the severa views.

Of the said drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of the improved pieceof furniture, showing the same converted into a chair, Fig. 2 is a frontelevation thereof, Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the piece of furnitureconverted into a table, Fig. 4 is a vertical section taken on the line44 of Fig. 2, Fig, 5 is a vertical section taken on the line 5 5 of Fig.1.

n its practical embodiment, the chair comprises front and rear legs 7,7, and 8, 8, a seat 9 carried by said legs, and a back 10 which ishinged to the rear end of the fixed arms 11 and forms the top of thetable, when the piece of furniture is to be used for that purpose. Theseat above-referred to is located between the upper and lower ends ofthe several legs and is secured thereto in any desired manner. The seat,moreover, is of the box type, thus providing a rece tacle in whichvarlous articles may be p aced. The cover 12 of the box, which forms theupper wall of the seat, is hinged at its rear edges to the rear wall 13of the seat and rests, when closed, u on horizontal flanges or shoulders14 an upon the front wall 15 of the seat.

Each of the arms 11 which are mounted upon u per ends of the legs hassecured to its upper ace, at the rear end thereof, one member of a hinge16, the opposite member of member 10, and

which is fastened to a beam 17 which is fastened to the under face ofthe table top or chair back 10. The position of these beams is such thatthey rest directly upon the upper faces of the arms 11, when the pieceof furniture is converted into a table while they aline directly withand may be regarded as extensions of the rear legs 8, when the piece offurniture is to be used as a chair. Between the beams and in spacedrelation thereto and to each other is disposed a series of ribs 18 whichare likewise secured to the under face of the table top and are furtherconnected at their opposite ends by beams 19 and 20, the former of whichfits exactly between the beams 17 and is connected to the adjacent endthereof, while the latter fits between the rear le s 8, the length ofthe ribs being such that the astmentioned beam rests upon the upper edgeof the rear wall of the box seat, when the table top is in its verticalposition. Each rear leg is further provided with a hook 21 pivotethereto and adapted for engagement with an eye-bolt 22 which is securedto the table top adjacent the lower end thereof thus retaining the topin its vertical position. The arms may, if desired, be supported by aseries of ribs 24 which fit at opposite ends in sockets formed in theunder face of said arms and in the upper face of the adjacent side wallsof the seat.

It will be apparent, therefore, that the piece of furniture may bereadily converted from a table to a chair and vice versa by merelychanging the position of the swinging that the latter will be retainedin its vertical position even in the event of injury to the hinges, bymeans of the engagement of the hooks and eye-bolts, and by thedisposition of the beam 20 between the rear legs 8.

The piece of furniture may be constructed in various sizes, and itslines may obviously vary somewhat from those shown in the presentinstance.

What is claimed, is,

A chair of'the class described comprising in combination front and rearlegs; a seat carried by said legs and disposed intermediate the endsthereof; arms mounted upon the upper ends of the said legs a backadapted to be swung into Vertical or horizontal position, and having apair of beams secured to its under face in direct alinelnent with therear legs of the chair, each beam bein hin ed at its lower end to therear end of t e a( jacent arm; a series of ribs secured to the underface of said back in spaced relation to and parallel with each other andwith themselves; beams connecting the opposite ends of said ribs, theupper beam fitting between said first-mentioned beams, and thelower beamfitting between the rear legs of the chair and resting of the chairseat, when the back is in its vertical position; hooks secured to thesaid rear legs; and eyes secured to the under face of said back andadapted for engagement with upon the upper. edge of the rear wall saidhooks, to retain the backjnjverticallposition, said first-mentionedbeams being adapted to contact directly with the upper face of saidarms, when the back is in its horizontal positlon. 1

In testimony whereof, I affix my signature, in presence of twowitnesses.

CHARLES H. DIXON.

Witnesses:

ARTHUR J. MATTHISON, JAMES A. SAUL

